THE screwball comedy, Wanderlust, brings Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd together, as George and Linda, a couple whose married status has reached the turning point. After purchasing a tiny apartment in Manhattan, at a hefty price, he joins the dole queue and her latest “project,” a documentary about penguins with testicular cancer, has just been turned down by HBO.
They are obliged to move on to Atlanta to live with his nerd brother, Rick, (Ken Marino).
On their journey, they stumble across Elysium, which purports to be a Bed and Breakfast but is actually an “intentional community,” a free-loving, pot-smoking, nudist-embracing, Hippie-meets-New-Age commune.
Their first encounter is with the naked Seth, (Justin Theroux), the Jesus bearded leader of the Elysium community.
Seth sets his sights on Linda.
Meanwhile, blonde bombshell Eva, (Malin Akerman), wants to introduce George to the concept of free love.
Other commune members include the spacey matriarch Katie, (Kerri Kenney), the aggressive Karen, (Kathryn Hahn), and a nudist wine maker Wayne, (Joe Lo Truglio), in the process of writing a political novel.
Wanderlust is good for a few laughs.
